Improvement in lamp-bttrners



A. TAPLIN. Lamp Burner.- No. 102,728. -z'z'y2-1 Patented May 3, 18.70.

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ALVINTAPLIN, OF'IFORESTVILLE, A SSIGN'OR TO THE BRISTOL BRASS. AND cLooK COMPANY, or BRISTOL, CONNECTICUT;

Letters Patent No. 102,728, dated May 3, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT INLAMP-BURNERS;

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom it inc-y concern Be it known that I, .ALVIN TAILIN, of Foresti-'ille, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lump-Burners, of which the following is a i'ull, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which- Eigure 1 represents a sectional elevation of a lumpburner constructed in accordance with my improvement;

Figure 2, a longitudinal section through the line xx in fig. 1; and

Figure 3 a view in perspective of atube used in the improvement.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding part-s.

My invention has reference to that description of lump-burneissin which two flat wicks are passed or fed up thronglrtubes constructed to gradually assume a semicircular form at their upper ends, which converts the two flat wicks into a cylindrical one at their proection' above the'burner.

In such burners the air is admitted through the interior of the cylindrical wick thus formed, to the flame, by as'pace between the tubes, open on opposite sides, and corcspouding with the necessary shape of the tubes to receive the flat wicks, and bend or deliver them in a-smi-cy-imlrical form, as described.

- The air, as thus admitted, is found to produce great unsteadiness in the flame, which pufls or spirts. To avoidtthis, I arrange a tube down through between the wick-tubes from their top, and made to project below the-tops of the side openings formed by the wick-tubes, so that air entering by said openings is passed in a steady cclumn-shape to the flame.

Referring to the accompanying drawing- A represents the burner with its wick-tubes a a.

B, the lamp-cap.

O O, the wick-lifters, and

D the deflector and chimney-holder.

The wick-tubes a a are of the usual shape to receive at their lower endsthe two fiat wicks, and to cause them, as they are projected upward, to assume a semi-cylindrical shape, each. at the top or deliveryends of the tubes.

The space between the tubes and opposite side-openings b for the admission of air to the flame from the be a permanent cylindrical fixture; or beef a-split and elastic construction, as here represented, to fit burners of different sizes, or not, having my improvemcnt applied to them.

\Vhat is here claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

The arrangement down within or between the wicktubes to a. ot the tube E, projecting below the tops of the side-opening formed by and between said .wicktubes, substantially as described.

ALVIN TAPLIN.

Witnesses DAN. A. MILLER, Geo. W. Bnows. 

